Sponsors
Platinum Sponsor
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. Our award-winning software and technologies have set the standard for communication and collaboration for more than 25 years, bringing vital and engaging experiences to people across media and to every screen in their lives, at work and at play.
The impact of Adobe software is evident almost everywhere you look. Whether people are collaborating at work, transacting online, or socializing with friends, businesses use Adobe software and technologies to turn digital interactions into richer, high-value experiences that reach across computing platforms and devices to engage people anywhere, anytime. With a reputation for excellence and a portfolio of many of the most respected and recognizable software brands, Adobe is one of the world’s largest and most diversified software companies. All Adobe software offers unparalleled stability, innovation, and business value that technical communicators can confidently put their trust in.
Adobe’s heritage is founded in content authoring and publishing: We built the category and remain the gold standard. Adobe’s innovative solutions for technical communicators are market-leading best-of-breed software, and include:
- Adobe FrameMaker 10: The industry-leading template-based authoring and publishing solution for unstructured, structured, and XML/DITA/S1000D content
- Adobe RoboHelp 9: An easy-to-use solution for technical communicators to author, collaborate, personalize, and optimize content for help systems, policies and procedures, and professional knowledgebases for multichannel, multi device publishing
- Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3.5 (TCS3.5): A powerful integrated solution for authoring, reviewing, managing, enriching and publishing rich, engaging technical information and training content across multiple channels and devices from a single source. Try TCS3.5 now
Gold Sponsors
Acrolinx IQ helps your organization measure and improve the quality of published information by giving authors access to best-practice writing standards, editing help, corporate terminology and style guidelines, and dashboards that provide insight into corporate messaging strategies.
Our intelligent linguistic technology recognizes grammatical structures and semantic relations, allowing Acrolinx IQ to detect errors and inconsistencies that other solutions miss. Acrolinx IQ Plug-ins give writers access to best-practice writing standards, terminology, and intelligent reuse of content within their preferred authoring environment. The tools provided by Acrolinx IQ help our customers improve productivity, decrease localization costs, communicate consistently and accelerate time to market. Since writers and editors have access to state of the art editing tools and previously approved content, they spend less time rewriting and checking their work and more time developing high-impact information. The final content will be consistent, clear and ready to publish – even when developed by non-native writers or outsourced writing resources. Learn more.
DCL prepares digital content for electronic publishing and the Web. DCL’s services refine document conversion strategies, identify document redundancy, extract metadata, and transform legacy and future documents to meet the needs of today’s and future technologies. A leader in legacy conversion services since 1981, DCL offers their customers an opportunity to convert unstructured, legacy content to structured content, creating an opportunity to adopt a dynamic, multi-channel publishing strategy. Learn more.
DocZone Book Publisher is a cloud-based XML publishing system for print and ebooks. DocZone Book Publisher is the industry’s first cloud-based solution for creating, managing, translating, and publishing content to any format in any language. The automated production system converts MS Word manuscripts to XML and then provides web-based tools that facilitate copy editing and other production processes. Workflow tools; translation to more than 200 languages; and automated creation of print-ready PDF, HTML, and ebooks are all included in this affordable SaaS system.
IXIASOFT is a leading provider of XML content management software solutions to organizations worldwide. IXIASOFT offers the DITA CMS, a component content management solution designed specifically for technical communicators to efficiently author, review, manage and publish DITA-based documentation. Key features of the DITA CMS include 100% DITA support, XML editor integration, DITA Map editor, advanced search, workflow, web-based collaborative review, digital asset management, localization management and multi-format publishing capabilities. IXIASOFT also offers TEXTML Server, a native XML database used to store, index and retrieve large volumes of XML content. TEXTML Server is an embeddable component which has been integrated into various content management applications. IXIASOFT enjoys a global customer base in various vertical industries including newspaper & publishing, libraries & education, software & IT manufacturing and medical device manufacturing.
SDL’s Structured Content Technologies Division is the worldwide leader in Component Content Management (CCM) and Dynamic Publishing software that empowers global companies to easily create, share, manage and dynamically publish technical information that is tailored to the unique interests of their global customers. Leveraging XML standards, such as DITA and S1000D, SDL’s Structured Content technologies enable companies to keep pace with faster product release cycles, meet the growing expectations of “content consumers” and drive down the cost of delivering information and products to global markets. SDL’s Structured Content technologies are in use by a wide variety of well-known companies in consumer electronics, mobile communications, high tech, life sciences, legal publishing, as well as in government, aerospace and defense. Learn more.
Silver Sponsors
Aptara accelerates content providers’ transition from print to digital. From designing and producing eBooks and apps, to re-engineering production workflows, we help publishers gain agility and profitability in delivering their content online and to mobile devices. Having converted tens of millions of pages to eBooks and designed flexible, digital workflows for the world’s leading corporations and publishers, Aptara offers comprehensive solutions across all content sources and delivery media, including the Apple iPad and iPhone, Amazon Kindle and Fire, Barnes & Noble NOOK, and Sony Reader devices. Founded in 1988, Aptara is a U.S.-based company with more than 5,000 professionals worldwide helping content providers unlock new revenue opportunities in an increasingly digital and mobile-centric marketplace. Learn more.
Cadence9 is an online content marketing/social media solution that empowers teams to work seamlessly across all of their content destinations. The platform supports content planning (editorial calendar), distribution, monitoring, engagement, and metrics. An intuitive user experience ensures participation and contribution from the whole team and ultimately takes your content marketing strategy to the next level.
Cadence9′s flexible channel integration capabilities unify access, interaction and metrics across all your content marketing/social media destinations including custom blogs, wikis or collaboration portals based on Alfresco, Microsoft’s SharePoint, OpenText’s Vignette, and other WCM/CMS platforms. This unification allows for improved coordination, less risk, and higher ROI. Learn more.
DITA Exchange ApS is an independent software vendor and Microsoft partner that helps organizations to establish and maintain a “single-source of truth” for their most strategic content, and to deliver that content consistently across web pages, sales proposals, marketing collateral, product documentation and other business documents. To deliver this mission-critical functionality, DITA Exchange software enhances and extends Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint to make it easy for employees to collaboratively create, review, approve and deliver content to any publishing medium.
DITA Exchange solutions are successful because they apply the very well-thought-out structured content authoring and publishing principles of the DITA XML standard and information architecture, to the widely-used and familiar Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Word software. With DITA Exchange, businesses leverage existing investments in Microsoft platform and productivity software while accelerating the process of producing and publishing mission-critical content with greater consistency and in compliance with regulatory and governance-driven requirements. Learn more.
Earley & Associates is a well-established information management consulting firm specializing in:
- Website content strategy, navigation and search
- Portals and collaborative sites
- Enterprise Content Management and search
- Records Management
- Digital Asset Management
Earley & Associates has a uniquely integrated approach to making dynamic content accessible at the right time and place. It is called Content Choreography. Content choreography refers to planning, composing, organizing, presenting, and reacting to user interaction in a controlled yet artful way. Earley and Associates brings this approach to Fortune 2000 companies and large non-profit organizations and help them to:
- Enhance online customer experience
- Improve operational productivity and quality
- Increase working value of digital assets through reuse
- Ensure value results from investments in content management and search platforms
easyDITA is a cloud-based solution that makes it easy to create, collaborate, manage, publish, and localize DITA content.
- Easy to buy: easyDITA is affordable to organizations of all sizes, without a large up-front investment. Every edition supports unlimited users at one annual price.
- Easy to implement: Cloud-based deployment has you up and running on Day 1, without complex systems integration. Content in easyDITA can be used in any other DITA tool, including desktop editors. Upload your existing publishing pipelines to our servers and publish on line in minutes!
- Easy to use: easyDITA is designed from the ground-up for nontechnical users, so engaging authors and SMEs across your organization has never been so easy. Authors of all skill levels are productively creating and publishing content in a matter of hours.
JustSystems is a leading global software provider with three decades of successful innovation in office productivity, information management, and consumer and enterprise software. With over 2,500 customers worldwide, the company is continuing a global expansion strategy based on its XMetaL content lifecycle solutions, the world’s most complete and user-friendly XML authoring tool. JustSystems has been received many industry accolades for XMetaL including: EContent Magazine’s EContent 100 ‘Companies that Matter the Most in Digital Content’, KMWorld’s Trend Setting Product of 2011, 2010’s KMWorld’s 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management, Software Magazine’s The Software 500 of 2008, and many others. Major strategic partnerships include IBM, Siemens, and EMC.
XMetaL, XML-based software for structured authoring and content collaboration, helps organizations get to market faster with their information products by bringing structure and automation to managing high volumes of valuable content. Using industry standards including DITA, XMetaL enables content creators to efficiently create, collaborate, and reuse information that can be repurposed into the languages and formats customers demand. Used standalone, or integrated with any of several leading content management and publishing systems, XMetaL can be used by writers and reviewers even without XML knowledge. XMetaL has helped organizations including Cisco, Daimler, HP, Kodak, Microsoft, Philips, RIM, Southwest Airlines, Sybase, Symantec, Texas Instruments, and USA Today. Learn more.
MadCap Software, Inc. is a leading technical communication software firm specializing in integrated applications for end-to-end content development, delivery and management. MadCap’s software products provide state-of-the-art content workflow solutions for multi-channel publishing, including the Web, print, desktop and mobile. Through its strategic partner Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), MadCap delivers solutions optimized for Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio, and the .NET environment. Headquartered in La Jolla, CA, MadCap is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the documentation industry. Learn more.
Founded in 1990, Mekon are leading UK consultants and systems integrators. We are focused on increasing the effectiveness of your content creation, management and delivery.
Faced with insufficient staff and ever increasing demand for output, organisations today often require some support to ensure project success. That support should incorporate best practice, risk management and customer- and ROI-led planning. Mekon provide a well-defined, end-to-end methodology and service that balances strategic guidance and training with the technical capabilities to make a solution a reality.
Our customers are encouraged to focus on their customers’ needs first and work backwards developing solutions that work with their particular business context. We specialise in systems that allow reuse and recombination of content for flexible, scalable two-way publication, across multiple formats and via the latest publishing media.
Experience with all the major publishing, DITA, S1000D and XML technology vendors gives Mekon a unique and un-biased insight into which technologies are suitable for specific client needs. We are one of the few organisations to successfully implement XML in both the non-technical enterprise content space and traditional technical and professional publishing. As a result Mekon are ideally placed to help you use your content as a strategic business asset. Learn more.
Scriptorium Publishing offers expert advice on how to develop, deploy, and manage information. We provide content strategy analysis and implementation services to transform your documentation into intelligent content. We don’t resell software, and we are not evangelists for any particular tool or technology.
Our typical customer is struggling to maintain thousands of pages of information, which need to be delivered in print, PDF, HTML, and other media, often in dozens of languages. Our mission is to understand your requirements, develop a content strategy, and implement a solution that works for you. In addition to state-of-the-art technical skills, many of our consultants have traditional publishing skills, such as typesetting, book design, copyfitting, and production editing. This understanding influences our approach to modern publishing systems with cutting-edge tools and technologies. Our customers include federal and state government as well as companies in defense, consumer electronics, telecommunications, medical, pharmaceutical, and other industries.If you are facing a difficult publishing challenge we want to hear from you. Contact us at 919-433-2618 or info@scriptorium.com.
Scriptorium Publishing is a privately held, woman-owned business based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and has been in business since 1997. Learn more.
SimplyXML wants your entire organization to receive the benefits of information reuse and flexible publishing. Simply XML provides simple solutions for creating and publishing XML content. Creating, managing, and publishing content with Content Mapper™ minimizes costs and ensures control and efficiency across your organization.
Content Mapper is an easy to use authoring tool that allows you to generate reusable content right from Microsoft Word. It takes care of all of the technical XML complexities “behind the scenes” so that all you need to think about is creating great content. It’s also versatile and configurable to your specific needs. Content Mapper lets authors create original or template driven documents, reuse existing content, share content in a repository, add metadata, utilize work flow, and publish to a variety of media. And we’ll do this with very low licensing and implementation costs.
Our goal is to allow enterprises to take advantage of information standards like DITA, DocBook, NLM, S1000D, and Information Mapping by providing authors with simple tools for creating valid, high-quality XML from Microsoft® Word. We believe that standards adoption will accelerate when the vast majority of authors who use Microsoft Word can easily contribute content and documents to the corporate repository and publishing system. We will work synergistically with you with the goal to create superior business results. We are committed to your success with a simple, cost effective, enterprise level solution that works. There’s a reason we call it Simply XML. Learn more.
Switzerland based STAR Group is one of the largest translation services and technologies companies in the world, and of all the major players, STAR is the only company to have grown organically, without mergers or acquisitions, into its current market position. A key driver in STAR’s growth has been it’s early decision to design and continually improve all of the technologies it uses to enable the most efficient delivery of global product information.
GRIPS is the global technical communications platform at the top end of STAR’s technology stack, which today is considered by more and more people to be the world’s most scaleable, mature and advanced single-source structured authoring and information management solution. After creating the spare parts management system that became the global standard for the mechanical watch industry in the late ’80’s and early ’90’s, STAR Group began working on GRIPS in 1993, which was first commercially released in 1999. GRIPS is a structured authoring system that organizes product information in the context of the product itself and in the process, it standardizes product information accessibility. For organizations looking to upgrade and, or modernize their product information processes, GRIPS provides an infrastructure and discipline that enables changes in organizational constructs to be consistent with a process reengineering plan’s policies and procedures by shifting the focus of “Tech Pubs,” from being producers of documentation to being facilitators of accurate, mission critical information, while not disrupting natural information flows. GRIPS’ scalability allows organizations to start with a single project and as benefits become more clear, scale up to include virtually any and all product information, as appropriate. Learn more.
Stilo International is the leading provider of cloud content conversion services, content conversion tools and developer of enterprise conversion solutions that aggregate and convert rich content from structured, semi-structured and unstructured sources including data, SGML/XML, Word, InDesign and FrameMaker, to target publishing formats such as DITA, S1000D, DocBook and custom XML. Through advanced levels of automation we reduce cycle times, lower production costs and provide direct user control over content quality.
Operating from offices in the UK and Canada, we support customers in Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, High Tech, Publishing and Government. Visit us at Intelligent Content 2012 as we launch OmniMark 10, the leading SGML/XML high-performance content processing platform or for a demo of Migrate, the DITA conversion service of choice for companies of all sizes, including IBM, Cisco Systems, Micron, Webtrends and STMicroelectronics. Learn more.
Headquartered in Pennsylvania, Vasont Systems is a leading provider of content management software and data services backed by more than 60 years of experience in the information management and publishing industry. Its flagship Vasont® content management system enables organizations of all sizes to create, manage and store their multilingual content once for multi-channel delivery.
Fortune 1000 companies and organizations from a variety of industries, including manufacturing, technology, publishing, and healthcare, use Vasont to manage and produce multilingual technical documentation, product manuals, training manuals, and reference materials.
Vasont Systems is committed to helping organizations of all sizes publish their multilingual technical documentation, product manuals, and other business information in the most efficient and effective way. We believe that by enabling maximum content reuse and repurposing, along with providing high quality customer service and support, we help our customers achieve their strategic business goals. Learn more.
Supporting Sponsors
Dozuki is the technical documentation tool you’ve always wanted. It creates beautiful instruction manuals with ease and delivers them to customers in whatever format they desire: via web, phone, tablet, print or XML.With Guidebook, writing instruction manuals is a streamlined, collaborative experience producing single source documentation that is painless to maintain. In Answers, users and employees alike are engaged in a social knowledge exchange that captures useful chatter resulting in a wealth of structured product experience. Dozuki is starting a revolution in how we create, maintain and deliver our product help content. Learn more.
Trapdoor Publishing Technologies, Inc. develops software to enable book publishers to efficiently and economically create Enhanced eBooks that can be distributed to any readers’ iPhone®, iPad® and Android™ mobile device, including the Kindle Fire and the NOOK™ to better connect authors with readers.
Our team has decades of software industry experience serving vertical industries, like book publishing, and in solving complex technical challenges regardless of industry. Team members’ software credentials span enterprise, SaaS, iPhone, iPad and Android mobile apps, middlware and database solutions, among others. We know how to collaboratively build, deploy, and support software applications for customers. We also understand book publishing. Through our wholly-owned imprint, Trapdoor Books, we’ve managed the key workflows and business processes confronting every book publisher—particularly for digital publishing. Trapdoor Books serves as our R&D laboratory, helping us to improve our publishing software and workflows. We benefit by close interactions with authors, and their loyal readers, to better understand how best to design, develop and deliver Enhanced eBooks. Learn more.
Vook is the creator of the leading cloud-based ePublishing platform. With Vook, it’s easy to create and enhance great looking eBooks, distribute them to leading marketplaces, and track their sales. The platform has created eBooks for major publishers and content owners including the Harvard Business Review, Google, and Hay House, and noted authors including Seth Godin, Anne Rice and Deepak Chopra. Join the Vook beta or request additional information.
